I visited the greenhouse project today. I finished the designs last spring, but as with so many things, life got in the way and construction was postponed for awhile.
Today they put the rafters in place. Just a few sticks of wood are nailed together and it feels like a [...]

Keeping an “uninhabited” building under 200 square feet, means no permits are necessary. What it also means, is it frees me up to be experimental with materials and construction methods.
This greenhouse, is really a greenhouse, the kind for growing tomatoes and such. The windows are all salvage windows of various types. [...]

David Macaulay wrote a series of books on architecture that captivated me as a child. The fully illustrated stories had a master builder as the main human character with the real focus of the book being the design and construction of the building itself. I was especially intrigued with engineering ideas that civilization seemed [...]